Facebook Adds More Free Services In Africa

Facebook Free Basic services will be provided with free mobile data for its users on Bharti Airtel Africa in 17 countries in Africa.

Airtel customers will not pay for data for Free Basics, which is a key part of the social network’s Internet.org initiative which aims to spread internet access in the developing world where such data costs are often prohibitive. Bharti Airtel Africa will also offer Free Basics for free in Zambia, Kenya, Malawi, Ghana, Seychelles and Rwanda, where it has already been working with Facebook’s Internet.org initiative.